Areas of Teaching

Literature and Cultural Identity; Literary and Cultural Theory; Literature and Philosophy; Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, Postcolonialism

Areas of Research

Theories of Culture, Media and Globalization; Space/Place, Identity and Travel; Methodologies of Cultural Analysis; Critical, Feminist and Postcolonial Theory; Modern and Postmodern Literature; Anglo-Irish Literature

Publications

René Boomkens en Ginette Verstraete, red. Mobiliteit: De cultuur van verplaatsing. Themanummer Kennis en Methode: Tijdschrift voor empirische filosofie 21.3 (1997).
(Co-editor of Mobility: The Culture of Displacement. An issue of Knowledge and Method: Journal for Empirical Philosophy)

Fragments of the Feminine Sublime in Friedrich Schlegel and James Joyce. SUNY Series on the Sublime, ed. Rob Wilson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.

René Boomkens, René Gabriels en Ginette Verstraete, red. Globalisering. Themanummer Krisis: Tijdschrift voor empirische filosofie 1.3 (2000).
(Globalization. Issue of Krisis: Journal for Empirical Philosophy)

Verstrooide burgers: Europese cultuur in een tijdperk van globalisering. Oratiereeks Universiteit van Amsterdam. Vossiuspers, 2001.
(Distracted/Dispersed Citizens: European Culture in an Age of Globalization. Published inaugural lecture)

Jan Baetens en Ginette Verstraete, red. Cultural Studies: Een Inleiding (Cultural Studies: An Introduction). Nijmegen: Vantilt Uitgeverij, 2002.

Ginette Verstraete and Tim Cresswell, eds. Placing Mobility, Mobilizing Place: The Politics of Representation in a Globalized World. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002.

Tracking Communities: Travel, Technology and the Politics of Location (provisional title).

“Railroading America: Towards a Material Study of the Nation.” Theory, Culture & Society 19.5/6 (2002): 145-159.

“Training Memory in Kim: Traces of a Haunted Geography.” Space and Culture 11 & 12 (2001): 123-144.

“Technological Frontiers and The Politics of Mobility in the European Union.” New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics. Issue on Mobilities. (Spring 2001): 26-43.

Contactgegevens

Spuistraat 210
1012 VT Amsterdam
Kamer 339

Tel.: 020 - 525 3834/3865
Fax: 020 - 525 3021
E-mail: verstraete@hum.uva.nl